Judge Finds Relator’s False Claims Act Suit Over Billing Fails To State Claims

Mealey's (January 20, 2021, 1:49 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois on Jan. 19 dismissed a woman’s lawsuit accusing her former employer, a doctor and a hospital of violating the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare and other insurers and for terminating her employment after she talked about discrepancies in the billing process, finding that her response to the defendants’ motions to dismiss did not address the arguments that the complaint failed to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) or satisfied the heightened pleading requirements of Rule 9(b)....